Release Notes

ScopeMaster – Release History

Release 4.3 2024 April

• Story Analyser for Jira
  • Simple Function Points – project summary auto-estimated SFP
• REST API
  • New endpoint to create a project.  POST app
  • New endpoint to update a project.  PUT app/
  • New endpoint to delete a requirement DELETE requirement/requirementId
  • Special characters are returned within requirement body GET app/appId/requirements
  • Set requirement type with POST or PUT

Release 4.2 2024 April

• Story Analyser for Jira
  • Use case model diagram – autogenerated use case model diagram of a Jira Backlog
  • Analyse All – Instruct the Story Analyser to analyse an entire backlog with one button click!
  • Stability and performance – over 100 improvements
  • More issuetypes: Story, New Feature, Epic and Improvement

Release 4.1 2024 March

• Analyser (inc Server)
  • Improved Value Tracer – interactive Product Breakdown Structure diagram that tracks size and WSJF
• API (inc Server)
  • New end point – locate a single requirement by external id (e.g. Azure Devops Issue ID or Jira Issue ID)

Release 4.07 2024 March

• Analyser (inc Server)
  • Improved Dashboards – improved insight
  • New “over time” view –  tracks requirements quality and size over time
  • Improved Table views  – for easy export
  • Detects potential Epics – improved refinement and sizing
  • Improved print layout

Release 4 2024 February

• Analyser (inc Server)
  • Custom Multi-Project Dashboards – improved insight
  • Improved Quality Report
  • Minor improvements – 20+ improvements.

Release 3.9.5 2023 December

• Analyser
  • Stability improvements
  • Usability – over 100 simplifications and improvements. .
• Server
  • v1 – Ready

Release 3.9 2023 October

• Analyser
  • CRUD analysis by User – improved layout.  Quality.
  • Simple Function Point Report – adjustable sensitivity.  Sizing.
  • Improved Value Report – clarity.  ROI.
  • Minor improvements – 30+ improvements.
• Server
  • Pre-launch – preparation.
  • API performance and stability improvements

Release 3.8.7 and 3.8.8 2023 September

• Analyser
  • CRUD analysis by User – amazing insight.  Quality.
  • CSV import with update – faster and better experience.  Convenience.
  • New tests – for inappropriate object names.  Quality
  • New functional verbs – reverse, undo.  Quality

Release 3.8.6  2023 September

• Analyser
  • Single Sign on – For organisations that are using Microsoft Azure Ad – soon to be renamed Entra. Convenience.
  • CSV import with update – importing by CSV now allows you to re-import just updating those changed requirements.  Convenience.
  • Bulk categorisation – select search results to bulk categorise as requirement type.

Release 3.8.5  2023 August

• Analyser
  • Value Report – New report that itemises the value provided by ScopeMaster. Convince your colleagues.
  • Use Case Diagram – new links to jump to search and jump to CRUD table.  Faster refinement.
  • Acceptance Criteria – new field.  Structure your user story content.
  • Improved UX for new projects.  Simpler experience.
  • Quality grading  shown in search results.  Target your refinement effort. (requires re-analyze all)

Release 3.8.3  2023 July

• Analyser
  • Tuning – Quality Scoring Adjusted to provide more balanced allocation of score.
  • Tuning Improvement to the Audit report
  • Fix Acknowledging “missing as OK” from the CRUD table now updates the quality reporting at the requirement level.
  • Stand by  We’ve been working hard preparing the ground for an exciting new capability that will be announced later in the summer.
• Jira Plugin
  • Stability improvements.

Release 3.7  2023 April 

• Analyser
  • NEW Given, when and then analysis.  Ideal for adopters of behaviour driven development, BDD or software with complex rules.  ScopeMaster now will detect well-formed and mal-formed Given, when and then statements.
    • Given, when and then analysis is also supported in Italian.
  • NEW features to help you organise user stories into Epics/Capabilities.
    • This facilitates top-down as well as bottom-up requirements development.
    • Quickly add a user story within an epic.
  • Improved selection of user stories for the flow diagram.
• API
  • NEW org_stats endpoint available to nominated organisation administrators, lists users, apps and bundles (currently experimental).

Release 3.6  2023 February

• Analyser
  • NEW Ambiguity fix suggestions.  If your requirements are flagged as “ambiguous”, ScopeMaster now suggests some potentially suitable phrases.  This is particularly helpful for those who are just getting to grips with ScopeMaster and writing clear functional user stories.
  • General Performance and stability with large (1000 – 5000) sets of user stories.
  • CSV import performance and stability, especially with larger files.
  • New experimental report – Object cross reference table, highlights the context where multiple objects are referenced.

Release 3.5.10  2023 February

• Analyser
  • New report builder, allows you to generate custom reports based on different requirements selection and report features.
  • Improvements to the Simple Function Point Display
  • Improved print output

Release 3.5.6  2022 December/January

• Analyser
  • Major improvements to the flow designer for interactive design of user journeys.
  • Improved importing of user stories by CSV.
  • “Jira-like” user story references.  Auto-generates unique, readable, reference IDs for improved traceability. (optional)
  • Updated V 3.5.6a
    • Fix to confirmed objects cannot be misunderstood as users. (thank you Michael!)
    • Value Tracer UX improved for top down planning.  You can now start a project defining Objectives and Capabilities, adding requirements later.
    • NFR detection enriched.

Release 3.5.5  2022 December

• Analyser
  • Improved importing
  • Improved Kanban board, now shows labels
  • New elicitation questions behind the more tab.
  • Allow create a custom object in the glossary.

Release 3.4.5  2022 November

• Analyser
  • Improved report by label and filter by label
  • Improved charting of functional size over time
  • Improved Value Tracer UI
  • More keyboard shortcuts
  • Improved access to status flags (Kanban)

Release 3.4  2022 November

• Analyser
  • New gorgeous requirements quality report.
  • Improved reporting of defects detected (summary report)
  • Simple Function Point report – improved
  • Print outputs – improved
  • Single Sign-on (SSO) via Azure AD  (foundations for future release).
• API
  • Create a set of requirements
  • Improvement to the Simple Function Points endpoint

Release 3.3  21 October 2022

• Analyser – Engine Update
  • Smarter functional phrase and user detection
    • Intelligent handling of multiple users per requirement New
  • Smarter custom glossary
    • Set your custom users and objects in the data dictionary once and they will be detected throughout all the user stories in a project, no need to re-specify your custom glossary in each requirement.New
    • No more ugly curly braces! They still work, but will be deprecated in a future release.
    • Cleaner layout of functional interpretation.
    • Foundations for shared and re-usable data glossary.
  • Other minor stability improvements.
  • Keyboard shortcuts to navigate between different views (instructions)
  • Deprecation of the Class Responsibility Report.

Release 3.2.24 October 2022

• Analyser
  • Apply labels to multiple requirements – with search
  • Improved Layout of Use Case Model Diagram
  • Import triggering event field
  • Minor fix to Quality Table

Release 3.2.23 September 2022

• Analyser
  • Autogenerated test scripts (as pseudo code) accelerates your DevOps velocity without compromising quality.

Release 3.2.22 August 2022

• Analyser
  • Set custom user preferences (UI language choice and others) New
  • Search improvements Improved
    • Improved relevancy
    • Improved partial matching
    • Label searching and grouping
    • Shows user and functional steps with search results (optional)
    • Navigate directly from search results to CRUD context
  • Visibility of object CRUD in the Users/Objects view Improved
  • Audit report Improved
  • Improvements to Azure DevOps integration, adds a comment in ADO with ScopeMaster results.
  • Stability improvements to reduce occasional warning messages
  • Over 40 accessibility improvements
  • Minor UI improvements

Release 3.2.20 August 2022

• Analyser
  • Add attributes to confirmed objects
  • Performance improvements
  • Additional UI translations (Italian, French)

Release 3.2.19 July 2022

• Analyser
  • Improved scalability and performance for very large sets of requirements 2000+
  • New reporting of conciseness
  • Easy navigate to CRUD context
  • Improved full report display options

Release 3.2.18 July 2022

• Analyser
  • Comments  – improve team collaboration with the ability to add and track comments. New
  • Improved UI internationalisation for French and Italian

Release 3.2.15 June 2022

• Analyser
  • Quality Table – see the health of your requirements at a glance.New

Release 3.2.14 June 2022

• Analyser
  • Improved table view
  • General stability improvements

Release 3.2.10 May 2022

• Analyser
  • Improved Accessibility (towards WCAG 2.1 compliance)
  • Adjusted quality grading (absence of Reference moved from Med to Low)
  • Analyse all – now reports a running total of tests performed

Release 3.2.9 May 2022

• Analyser
  • Easy project comparison New

• Analyser
  • Quality Grades A-E for individual requirements and sets of requirements New
  • Fix – set requirement type in modal – avoids consuming a credit unnecessarily.

Release 3.2.8 May 2022

• Analyser
  • Automated sequence diagrams New
  • Filter the use case model by custom labels, allows you to visualise your requirements by an subset you choose.
  • Fixed a bug that gave inconsistent messaging on saving a requirement.

Release 3.2.6 May 2022

• Analyser
  • Security improvements
  • New –  change requirements within the context of the Use Case Model Diagram
  • Fix on changing a requirement from functional to non-functional
  • Preparing for internationalisation of the UI

Release 3.2.4 March 2022

• Analyser
  • Improved functional interpretation highlighting
  • Improved stability with linking requirements
  • Improved the table view
  • Improved the Simple Function Points analysis
  • Improved sign-up and forgotten password experience
  • Other minor fixes

Release 3.2.3 March 2022

• Analyser
  • Improved visual cues to interpretation

Release 3.2.2 March 2022

• Analyser
  • Non Functional Requirement Detection
    • New experimental feature for detecting NFRs
  • Minor stability improvements

Release 3.2.1 February 2022

• Analyser
  • UI improvements
    • Revised colour scheme for CFP pills (to reduce visual noise)
    • Minor UI improvements throughout
  • New Audit History View

Release 3.2 January 2022

• Analyser
  • Performance improvements
    • Average page delivery time reduced from 0.9 seconds to 0.09 seconds.  Yes, a 10x improvement!
  • UI improvements

Release 3.1 January 2022

• Analyser
  • NEW Configurable status flags
  • NEW Kanban see details
    • Displays size and quality.
    • Fully featured and configurable Kanban board
    • Never accept a story into a sprint until it is ready.  Learn more
  • General stability and UI improvements
• Jira Story Analyser
  • Security and stability improvements

Release 3.02 December 2021

• Analyser
  • 20+ improvements including:
    • Class Responsibility Collaboration Card – autogenerated NEW
    • Tests for potential functionality within the acceptance criteria (notes) NEW
    • Improved detailed requirements sizing report
    • Improved Class Diagram
    • Requirements volatility chart
    • Minor bug fixes.

Release 3.01 December 2021

• Analyser
  • Over 50 improvements including:
    • CSV import flow
    • Get related requirements
    • Search results
    • Full report view
    • About project view
• Cloud infrastructure
  • Improved network security and performance
• Story Analyser for Jira
  • Security improvements on installation

Release 3.0 November 2021

• Analyser
  • Enhanced requirement linking.
    • Dynamically link your stories into insightful flows.
    • Combine links with labels to create independent user flows.
    • Track CFP size throughout
  • Enriched data insight into a set of requirements – on the about page
  • Usability Improvements to the requirement page and navigation.
  • New triggering event field.
  • More insight about size and objects found in search results page
  • Improvements to IFPUG reporting
  • Improved performance
  • Deprecated sequence diagram on the requirement page.
• REST API
  • Links and labels now included when fetching analysed requirements
  • Performance and stability improvements
• Story Analyser for Jira
  • Security improvements